Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
by Brendan I. Koerner
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appears in True Crime, American History, and History.
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a fiveyear period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands, where they imagine...
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